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Remembering Gene Mauch,
Strategic Baseball Manager

Gene Mauch, a cerebral baseball manager who guided four major-league teams to 1,901 victories over 26 years, died yesterday of lung cancer at age 79.

Before baseball's modern statistical age, Mr. Mauch studied batter-pitcher matchups and searched for every advantage. Had he written an autobiography -- which he never did -- he would have called it, "Every Move Was Calculated."